ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,317, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to TriLite Technologies GmbH (Vienna).

"Light projector module" was invented by Louahab Noui (East Sussex, Great Britain) and Joerg Reitterer (Brunn am Gebirge, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light projector module comprises a support, a light source for emitting in a beam path a light beam carrying said image, a MEMS mirror for deflecting the emitted light beam as a deflected light beam, and a waveguide with two parallel sides. The waveguide has an in-coupling section for coupling the deflected light beam into the waveguide and an out-coupling section for coupling the light beam out fro...